Desolation Row

And the phantom shouts to skinny girls
But all his sexless patients

They�re spoon feeding Casanova
On desolation row

They�re trying to blow it up
That knows more than they do
And the only sound that�s left
Then they bring them to the factory

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
Now he looked so immaculately frightful
And everybody�s shouting
"Have mercy on his soul"
Has even taken all her things inside
To desolation row"
About desolation row

They need somewhere to go

For playing the electric violin
And give them all another name
And puts her hands into her back pockets

Her sin is her lifelessness
Into desolation row
They�re getting ready for the feast
And in comes Romeo, he�s moaning

On her twenty-second birthday
Noah�s great rainbow
The other is in his pants
The Titanic sails at dawn
She spends her time peeking
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
She also keeps the cards that read
He�s going to the carnival tonight

With his friend, some jealous monk
You would not think to look at him
About the time the door knob broke
The stars they're just pretending to hide
Ophelia, she�s �neath the window
All except for Cain and Abel
Here comes the blind commissioner
After the ambulances go
Yes, I know them, they�re quite lame
Cinderella, she seems so easy
And the good Samaritan, he�s dressing
Bette Davis style
Now to her, death is quite romantic
Right now I cannot read too well
Her profession is her religion

As he bummed his cigarette

And fishermen hold flowers
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
"My friend you'd better leave"
Yes, I received your letter yesterday
Praise be to Nero�s Neptune
To desolation row
Or else expecting rain

I had to rearrange their faces
Between the windows of the sea
Casanova he's just being punished for going

And someone turns and says to him
Across the street they�ve nailed the curtains
Don�t send me no more letters, no

Check to see that no one is escaping
If you lean your head out far enough
With his memories in a trunk
On desolation row

Now the moon is almost hidden

And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Where lovely mermaids flow

The fortunetelling lady
All these people that you mention
By insurance men who go
Is strapped across their shoulders
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker

Now at midnight all the agents

And then the kerosene

Then they�ll kill him with self-confidence
They all play on the penny whistle
You can hear them blow
Not unless you mail them

When you asked me how I was doing
And reciting the alphabet
Is brought down from the castles
She�s in charge of the cyanide hole
To get him to feel more assured
As lady and I look out tonight

And the riot squad they�re restless
Everyone is makin' love
It takes one to know one, she smiles
"Get outta here if you don�t know
After poisoning him with words
And nobody has to think too much
Come out and round up everyone

And the superhuman crew
For her I feel so afraid
While Calypso's singers laugh at them

Where the heart attack machine
He�s getting ready for the show
In a perfect image of a priest
Locked inside of his leather cup

Was that some kind of joke?
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Passed this way an hour ago
Now his nurse, some local loser
"Which side are you on?"
From desolation row
She wears an iron vest
"You belong to me I believe"
The circus is in town
But he was famous long ago
They�ve got him in a trance
She already is an old maid
Is Cinderella sweeping up
The phantom of the opera
And Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliott
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
From desolation row
On desolation row
Fighting in the captain�s tower